As Yana and Kye approached the Love Island finale, Yana couldn’t quite believe she was so close to the finish line – with her ex-boyfriend Kye.
The social media star, who posts as Sydney Plumber Chick, signed up for the show to get over Kye, not to share a villa with him! So, when the electrician first walked in as a ‘bomb’, she was convinced he was there to “ruin her experience”.
“I decided to go on Love Island so that I could get over this guy,” the 21-year-old plumber tells TV WEEK.
“I wanted to meet someone else and just finally let go of him and move on.”
Now, after Australia voted for them to win $30,000 and bragging rights of being Love Island Australia winners for 2025, their unconventional love story seems even more special.
Their first shot at romance was, in her own words, “so toxic”. It became a tit-for-tat relationship in which she’d block him and run, instead of talking.
But in the villa there was nowhere to run and, after Kye kissed Emma, the pair were forced to confront everything that had gone wrong.
“He had to see how bad it was – how emotional I was,” Yana says.
“We had to sit there and talk about it, which was so helpful for us, because that’s something we’d never done before.”
By the time of their romantic final date on a boat, Yana reveals that she felt as if she was with a new man.
“The way he was getting so vulnerable and opening up – that’s something I’d never heard from him,” she recalls. “It was a pretty wild date. I remember coming back and just being quite shocked at this new version of him.”
After everything they’ve been through, the pair are now stronger than ever.
“We are made for each other,” she says. “We just needed a few lessons to learn that. I can definitely only see my future with Kye at this stage.”
With marriage on her mind and a future Love Island wedding being joked about, who knows what will happen now that the couple have won Love Island 2025. But according to Yana, their future is looking good.
“We are made for each other,” she says.
“We just needed a few lessons to learn that. I can definitely only see my future with Kye at this stage.”
You can watch the whole season on 9Now.
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